Senior Cloud Support Engineer - Application & Security Governance

Snowflake; Leeds; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud data platform in Leeds is seeking a Senior Cloud Support Engineer for technical guidance and customer support. The role requires excellent communication, problem-solving skills, and familiarity with cloud technologies. You will enhance customer satisfaction by resolving technical issues and documenting solutions. Candidates should have a relevant degree and experience in technical support. Competitive benefits and professional growth opportunities are offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in a Technical Support environment or a similar technical function in a customer-facing role.
• Experience in troubleshooting various operating systems.
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment across global teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical solutions to complex problems for customers.
• Ensure fast resolution of customer issues exceeding expectations.
• Document solutions to knowledge bases and report bugs.

Skills

Technical support experience

Communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Collaboration

Cloud provider experience

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

SQL

Identity Access Management (IAM)

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Posted:

25.08.2025

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09.10.2025

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Job Description:

Where Data Does More. Join the Snowflake team.

Build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake team.

Snowflake Support is committed to providing high-quality resolutions to help deliver data-driven business insights and results. We are a team of subject matter experts collectively working toward our customers’ success. We form partnerships with customers by listening, learning, and building connections.

Snowflake’s Support team is expanding! We are looking for a Senior Cloud Support Engineer who likes working with data and solving a wide variety of issues utilizing their technical experience having worked on a variety of operating systems, database technologies, big data, data integration, connectors, and networking.

As a Senior Cloud Support Engineer, your role is to delight our customers with your passion and knowledge of Snowflake Data Warehouse. Customers will look to you for technical guidance and expert advice with regard to their effective and optimal use of Snowflake. You will be the voice of the customer regarding product feedback and improvements for Snowflake’s product and engineering teams. You will play an integral role in building knowledge within the team and be part of strategic initiatives for organizational and process improvements.

Based on business needs, you may be assigned to work with one or more Snowflake Priority Support customers. You will develop a strong understanding of the customer’s use case and how they leverage the Snowflake platform. You will deliver exceptional service, enabling them to achieve the highest levels of continuity and performance from their Snowflake implementation.

Ideally, you have worked in a 24x7 environment, handled technical case escalations and incident management, worked in technical support for an RDBMS, been on-call during weekends, and are familiar with database release management.

Applicants should be flexible with schedule changes to meet business needs

AS A SENIOR CLOUD SUPPORT ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:

Drive technical solutions to complex problems, providing in-depth analysis and guidance to Snowflake customers and partners using the following methods of communication: email, web, and phone

Adhere to response and resolution SLAs and escalation processes in order to ensure fast resolution of customer issues that exceed expectations

Demonstrate good problem-solving skills and be process-oriented

Utilize the Snowflake environment, connectors, 3rd party partner software, and tools to investigate issues

Document known solutions to the internal and external knowledge base

Report well-documented bugs and feature requests arising from customer-submitted requests

Partner with engineering teams in prioritizing and resolving customer requests

Participate in a variety of Support initiatives

Provide support coverage during holidays and weekends based on business needs

OUR IDEAL SENIOR CLOUD SUPPORT ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent discipline

5+ years experience in a Technical Support environment or a similar technical function in a customer-facing role

Excellent writing and communication skills in English with attention to detail

Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment across global teams

Experience with the major public cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP

Experience in Database systems and SQL queries

Experience in Identity Access Management (IAM) and Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC)

Experience in troubleshooting data sharing features, including secure views, and shares.

Experience in data replication in Snowflake or any other vendors

Experience in Data Warehouse Technologies

Experience in troubleshooting platforms that support marketplace functions

Experience of working with data governance capabilities - Data Quality Monitoring, Data Privacy, Row/Column Security Policy, Data Lineage and Dependencies

Experience working with web security, networking technologies, and protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, load balancers, proxies, and firewalls.

Experience in troubleshooting a variety of operating systems like Windows, Mac, *Nix Experienced in troubleshooting connectivity issues using a variety of diagnostic tools and methods

Knowledge and understanding of encryption

Experience in Authentication and Authorization protocols (SAML SSO, Key pair, OAuth, MFA)

Experience in a number of the following

Cloud authentication/access policies

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), certificates, SSL/TLS

AWS Key Management Service, MSFT Key Vault, GCP KMS

Identity provider experience (Okta, PingFederate, OneLogin, ADFS, Azure AD (Entra ID), etc.)

SCIM provisioning and Rest API Calls (, Get, Patch, etc.)

Nice to haves:

Public cloud certification on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud (GCP)

Scripting/coding experience in any of the following: Python, Java, .Net, NodeJS, R

Experience in implementing data-sharing features in Snowflake or any other vendors

Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to diagnose and resolve data governance issues in the policy definition/application of the policy

Security-related certifications such as AWS Certified Security - Specialty, CISM, CISSP, CSSP, CCSK, Security+ CCNA

Experience in configuring and troubleshooting drivers such as ODBC, JDBC

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.